By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Large-scale Swedish data reveal a female “catch-up” effect in autism diagnoses, reshaping ...

Autism has always been framed as a condition that mostly affects boys. Yet after tracking more than 2.7 million people born ...

Over more than 35 years of follow-up, 78,522 people were diagnosed with autism. This represented 2.8% of the study population ...

Autism has long been thought of as a condition that mostly affects boys, but a massive study from Sweden suggests that idea may be misleading. Tracking nearly 3 million people over decades, ...

Most new cases reflect mild or no significant impairment. Moderate and severe cases have declined. Adam Omary is a ...

For decades, autism has been framed as a condition that overwhelmingly affects boys, with girls treated as statistical ...

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A Swedish study of 2.7 million people reveals autism affects boys and girls equally, but girls typically receive diagnoses 5 ...

A rare disorder called myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) causes weakness and muscle loss that gets progressively worse. Patients with DM1 are about 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than half of the apparent increase in childhood autism cases in Denmark between 1980 and 2011 may be due to changes in how those cases are reported, according to a new ...

As the mother of a child with a neurodivergent condition, I’ve navigated my fair share of uncomfortable comments over the years. Everyone from fellow parents and family members to my son’s karate ...